Chapter 958

Although I knew before coming that the odds of winning against the Bureau Chief weren't high, this is just too miserable...

Like Leon, who lost and went silent, the three Scorpion Branch cleaners, facing a battle result that couldn't be called a total defeat but was certainly pathetic, could only shrink back into Leon's stomach, filled with despair.

Regarding this, one can only say that while three senior level-two cleaners together can muster 59 points of contamination, they cannot muster a meticulously crafted set of anomalous objects capable of handling various situations, nor can they muster years of experience in dealing with anomalous objects, and they certainly cannot have the reaction speed of a True God level.

Facing Leon lunging forward with a blade, the Scorpion Bureau Chief immediately released a batch of sturdier puppets. After just a slight probe, he discovered the problem lay with the 【Silver Cutting Dagger】, and subsequently immediately switched to attacking Leon's wrists.

Upon discovering that Leon would not be injured by the attacks and that his wrists could not be destroyed no matter what, the Scorpion Bureau Chief changed tactics again, starting to use restrictive anomalous objects, trying his best to avoid direct contact with the 【Silver Cutting Dagger】.

After Leon danced wildly with his blade, shredding six or seven puppet anomalous objects, a speed-type puppet finally succeeded in avoiding the edge of the 【Silver Cutting Dagger】 and gripped Leon's wrist.

With the only weapon in his hand capable of breaking 【Puppet Room】 restrained, and lacking other powerful means of attack, Leon naturally had no choice but to surrender when faced with the siege of a group of indestructible puppets.

Leon, having finished his big talk, didn't even reach the Scorpion Bureau Chief; after rushing out only five or six steps, he was "buried" by a pile of puppets that crawled out of the suitcase, pressed down firmly by many hands and feet, completing a standard light-speed defeat.

And from the moment Leon bravely rushed up to being taken down by a group of puppets, only twenty-some seconds had passed; the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 that had been tied up by tree branches hadn't even sunk to the bottom of the lake yet.

"If you don't want to talk, forget it."

Looking at Leon, who refused to communicate and kept a long face without saying a word, the Scorpion Bureau Chief shook his head and gave up on continuing to converse with a defeated opponent.

He picked up a strangely shaped rapier and casually slashed through the air twice, cutting the tree roots that bound the 【Whale Shark Puppet】. Like repairing other puppet anomalous objects destroyed by the 【Silver Cutting Dagger】, he controlled the two halves of the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 to slowly merge toward the center.

"Hey!"

However, just as he was waiting for the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 to fully recover, Leon, who had been silent until now, suddenly raised his head and asked:

"Bureau Chief Edward, since you are so strong, why were you almost blown to death by artillery fire before?"

"You mean that..."

Hearing Leon's words, the Scorpion Bureau Chief hesitated slightly, seemingly unsure if it counted as leaking secrets, but looking at Leon, whom he had already caught and who could no longer escape, he thought for a moment and answered:

"Two weeks before moving against me and Ruben and the others, the entire Krolok Kingdom's sprinkler system had already been infused with diluted adrenaline antagonist. Although you wouldn't feel it normally, your reaction speed at critical moments wouldn't be up to par, so I couldn't even activate my life-saving substitute puppet.

By the way, when you suddenly vomited and I couldn't dodge, getting it all over me, that was when the adrenaline antagonist was taking effect... It's a pity, if I had discovered this point at the time, perhaps I wouldn't have ended up like this."

"A little bit of medicine took you down?"

After looking at the Scorpion Bureau Chief, whose expression was somewhat unwilling, Leon frowned and said:

"After Mo Na and the others died, they almost rushed back from the Death Realm. At your level, even if your physical body is destroyed, you could still fight for a while relying on your soul, right?"

"That's true, but my soul was sealed."

After sighing gloomily, the Scorpion Bureau Chief waited for the whale shark to merge while chatting with Leon:

"Prince Andrei is a member of the King-Slaying Society. He moved the people of the King-Slaying Society to help, killed a True God, burned its flesh and blood, and sent a portion of one of the members' power inside."

When I was preparing to let my soul leave my body, that portion of power sent down by the King-Slaying Society forcibly blocked my soul back in. And since the soul's dependence on the physical body is a rule of the present world, when the physical body is unconscious, the soul cannot remain awake independently, and so I was caught."

King-Slaying Society...

After firmly remembering this name in his heart, Leon continued to ask with a look of disdain:

"So you didn't even resist, and were just caught?"

"That's not exactly true; I did resist a little."

The Scorpion Bureau Chief shook his head and said:

"But Prince Andrei's side had dismantled and decomposed all the anomalous objects seized from the Twin Branch's warehouse, using the decomposed materials to make something called 'Stance Stones,' which were distributed to over eight hundred blocks in the Krolok Kingdom.

When I moved to counterattack, I was already at the end of my rope, and after being dispersed by those Stance Stones, the remaining 1/800th of the effect didn't cause any damage before being blocked. I estimate it only made the entire Krolok Kingdom shake a little."

After finishing the story of his failure, the Scorpion Bureau Chief simply sat cross-legged and smiled, taking the initiative to ask:

"Do you have any other questions? In consideration of you saving Ruben and the others once, before your immortal anomalous object's effect ends and you are thoroughly killed by me, I can satisfy your curiosity a bit more."

"No more, the questions I wanted to ask have all been asked."

Hearing the Scorpion Bureau Chief's words, Leon shook his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and said:

"Bureau Chief Edward, how about this: in consideration of you being so patient with me, after this matter is over, if you want to know exactly how you lost, I can answer you properly once."

"?"

The Scorpion Bureau Chief was slightly startled upon hearing this, then frowned:

"What do you want to say? I don't understand what you mean."

"Hiccup... you'll understand in a moment... oh, by the way..."

After letting out a hiccup full of alcohol, Leon, having achieved his goal of stalling for time, grinned, then tilted his chin toward the Scorpion Bureau Chief's feet and asked quite happily:

"Do you like beautiful feet?"

"???"

Completely unable to keep up with Leon's train of thought, the bewildered Scorpion Bureau Chief had no choice but to look toward his feet following his gaze, and then discovered a human right foot sculpture with smooth muscles and clear joints, looking like marble.

"This is?"

Amidst the Scorpion Bureau Chief's puzzled expression, Leon smiled and explained:

"This thing is called 【Foot of Bodybuilding】; it's an anomalous object I forged myself. Its effect is to make a person's right foot look particularly good. It belongs to you now."

"???"

Belongs to me? What do I need this thing for?

Still not understanding Leon's meaning, the Scorpion Bureau Chief was about to continue asking, but suddenly discovered something was not quite right. The moment that "beautiful foot" appeared, it seemed as if something was suddenly "missing" from his heart.

At the same time, the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 that had already sunk to the bottom below turned its fish head in a bizarre way, swung the fins at its chest and tail in a full-speed sprint, and crashed head-on into the Intellect Core at the bottom of the cooling lake.

Before the sound of this violent impact could even travel over, the two-meter-thick glass protective wall outside the Intellect Core exploded with a bang in the Scorpion Bureau Chief's shocked gaze, and a massive amount of lake water instantly poured in, crushing all the extremely precise machinery inside!

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